Re: [Space] GURPS Handbook of the Planets
 

I fully understand the sensibility of using metric. But I simply can't think in it, and prefer American units to be more user friendly... at least for this sad antiquated user. :)

Re: [Space] GURPS Handbook of the Planets
 

I agree. The foot is the size it is for a reason. That reason just has nothing to do with math.

That said, it does give something of a more furistic feel to use the metric system.

Re: [Space] GURPS Handbook of the Planets
 

But then I would want to go whole hog and invent a unique system for my aliens. As it is, I'm coming up with a different set of time units based on their planet's cycles. Base ten as I'm a lazy hypocrite. :)

Re: [Space] GURPS Handbook of the Planets
 

Spectral type for white dwarf is always a D(second letter). The difference between the various types is the emission lines present in their spectra. Have a look at the first parts of this paper.

Temperature varies in a huge range, and I've seen figures from 150,000 K to 6000, depending on the age.

Re: [Space] GURPS Handbook of the Planets
 

I would imagine that they run everywhere from really hot all the way to cold dead rock assuming the universe is old enough.

Re: [Space] GURPS Handbook of the Planets
 

A white dwarf will ultimately equilibrate with the cosmic background radiation, yes, but in the time scales that GURPS Space considers, this won't happen even for the oldest of white dwarves.

Re: [Space] GURPS Handbook of the Planets
 

Games could always take place in the really distant future when most stars have already died out. Struggling in the last warm corner of the universe hoping to find someway to restart star formation or punch through to a younger section of reality sounds epic to me.

Re: [Space] GURPS Handbook of the Planets
 

What was this quoting? In any case, white dwarf properties are somewhat irrelevant when looking at planet stats for space purposes, as any planets that survived the red giant phase will be in a hard freeze once the white dwarf has evolved to any significant degree (this article is old but has a comprehensible table on page 3 (L79), suggesting dropping down to 0.1Lsun within 18-42 MYr and 0.01 within 155-274 MYr).

Re: [Space] GURPS Handbook of the Planets
 

The changelog Nakawaros posted for his generator. I'll make that clearer in my post.

Re: [Space] GURPS Handbook of the Planets
 

Agreed, but I prefer to supply spectral type, luminosity and temperature for all stars. (Although I force apply something that "looks good" for White Dwarves. I candidly could not force my way through Wikipedia's refrences for them, nor what came up in the first 4 pages of a google search.)